I hereby resolve to ...

stop ...

-------> answering the question "How is everything going? How are things going with your S.O. and you?" with "** whiney tone ** Wahhh. Wahhh. Not very good. Things havent changed. I'm just hanging in there."

-------> working like a crazy woman to get the kids to be quiet when he should be upstairs working during the day. The area has been cleaned and the wiring set up and there is no earthly reason for him to be down here demanding what he does of us.

start ...

-------> answering the question "How is everything going? How are things going with your S.O. and you?" with a hearty "Fine. But its too boring to talk about. What's going on with you?"

-------> telling him to set up in the spare room on Saturday and Sunday mornings.